Having the right staff with the right skills in the right place to meet the needs of people and improve their health is our primary overarching driver. The Nursing and Midwifery Faculty will enable this through the leadership of the Chief Nurses, workforce, and educational leads across the system. Working in collaboration to co-design improvements to enable a tangible difference at the front line. This will include collaborative action on recruitment and retention which is a vital component for the ongoing management for service developments and recovery for the NHS following COVID -19 pandemic as well as supporting wider staff health and wellbeing.
The ambition is to support local workforce strategies that set out a range of actions that are bespoke and empower trusts to deliver better outcomes for people through a structured approach which is focused around 3 key pillars:
- Look after our students, nurses, and midwives.
- Develop new ways of working and delivering care
- Growing the workforce for the future.
The faculty is chaired by Dr Kathryn Cobain.
“It is my absolute privilege to chair the Nursing and Midwifery Faculty for Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Nursing and midwifery workforce and education has been a shared continual focus and passion, with a core belief that if we can improve the experiences for nurses and midwives in their careers, we will improve patients and their loved one’s experience of the care”
Kathryn is the Chief Nursing Officer at Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB, having started in this role in May 2022. Before this, Kathryn was Director of Public Health for Worcestershire. Kathryn is also a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Caldicott Guardian within the ICB and is passionate about promoting health and wellbeing and providing equal opportunities both in residents and staff.
The Nursing Version of ShinyMind is now live!
ShinyMind officially launched and gifted its nursing version to all NHS Nurses, Midwives, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Support Workers in England!
Thank you to the thousands of nurses, midwives, nursing associates and healthcare support workers who joined our online launch event ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup’, hosted by Professor Gemma Stacey, CEO and Director of Florence Nightingale Foundation Policy Unit.
Gemma was also joined by our nurse Q&A panel with Professor Steve Hams MBE MStJ, Chief Nurse at North Bristol NHS Trust, Martin Hogan, Senior Education and Workforce Development Nurse of South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust, Marsha Jones, Deputy Chief Nurse at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Janet Thornley, Strategic GPN Lead for the BLMK ICB.
Karen Storey, seconded from NHS England and Improvement as our Nursing and Retention Lead, invited nurses from across the country that have been helping us with the development of the nursing version, and who wanted show their support, to share with us how they use ShinyMind to keep their cups full.
Rebecca Howard, CEO and Founder of ShinyMind, also delivered an interactive self-compassion session and our special guest Michael Rosen recited live his new poem for nurses.
Follow this link to access ShinyMind
Coinciding with National Nurses Day in May 23’ , we are delighted to be relaunching our ‘Preparing for your future as a nurse’ online programme on the NHS Learning Hub. Please share the information below with relevant students and staff in your organisation.
Designed for second and third-year nursing students, the programme includes information to help with the transition from student nurse into a first post as a registered nurse, with advice for searching and applying for a first job, what to expect at the start, how to make the most of the early stages of a nursing career, and much more.
We have recently updated the programme with more information in the ‘What to expect from preceptorship’ section to support the new national preceptorship framework for nursing. More resources have also been added to the self-care and wellbeing and clinical supervision sections, and students should find the content easy to digest with new videos, infographics and links to useful external resources.
The programme is hosted on the NHS Learning Hub, which is free to access for all students and NHS staff. Students can access the content at any time and can work their way through it around their university or placement workloads and schedules.
Visit the 'Preparing for your future as a nurse' programme to find out more.
